Ok, so you want to love yourself and as much as you try to look in the mirror and admire the woman looking back at you, you can’t. You then put anything on, nothing will look great anyway, and you go and live your life day to day thinking, I’ll never be beautiful, no matter how much I read about the subject, I just can’t so I might as well accept it… oh and by the way, the thing about beauty coming from within is probably just a nice proverb said by someone who felt the same way I feel.

Beauty does come from within, it’s not just a proverb but also a fact, I think it’s been more than proved by people we love who simply look gorgeous or extremely handsome. However, we can’t deny the fact that it shouldn’t only remain within. Beauty is to be exposed and to be admired. Who doesn’t love to look at beautiful things?

So how to love yourself enough to the point of feeling beautiful?

To answer that, you must first ask the question ‘what do people who love themselves do?’ Do they just put anything on and hope they’ll be admired by whom they are within? Of course not. A woman who loves herself will also take good care of herself. She’ll invest in herself every way possible, which means that she’ll take her time to look great.

Sometimes that’s all you need to do. How can you care more for yourself as a woman? Would you perhaps benefit from a good diet and daily exercises that will not only make you look great but also feel great? How about your hairstyle, could you look better with a more modern look? Perhaps you could dress yourself in an entire different style altogether, going for bolder colours, more feminine and elegant clothes, with a couple of extra accessories to complete the look. In other words, you don’t need to go for a make over somewhere that lasts for a day or two to look and feel better about yourself, you can do it today, right now in a way that will look better with time. What’s impeding you? In this day and age, you don’t even need to have loads of money to look great. All you need to have is eyes to see what looks good on your type of body. That’s all! Not a big deal is it?

If you start caring for yourself as if you loved who you are, you’ll start really loving yourself and you know why? Because you’re a loveable person, why wouldn’t you love yourself? Taking good care of yourself will only bring you benefits and it’s fun, exciting, and extremely rewarding. When I woke up to this fact, it was as if I had revived – no more clothes that made me look too old and no more wig like haircuts. I started to take the time to do my nails every week (by myself by the way), go bolder with the colours I wear, and do something different with my hair. As I started to enjoy what I saw, I started to care more, going to the gym and eating more healthy foods.

Today, caring for myself is a daily routine. I guess if you can care for yourself, you can then care for others.

In faith.
Cristiane Cardoso.